Thread: Death of a Tiger.

Well, I had a 350C on the nose, and yes, I could go Vert for a second or so, also could have dived. BUT, this plane had over 50 hours of flight time, more added glue and tweeks which has added way to many ounces, so I was a little limited as to what escape route I could take. I elected to turn downwind and get out of his zone, just so happens...it was a young hawk who was looking to get something!! These young hawks are so bold, I have seen...

Yep, but sometimes you are just done for.

Originally Posted by TM4197 Ya win some air battles....ya lose some! Sometimes you are the windshield, sometimes you are the bug. And the results can be redickyalus!

Originally Posted by TM4197 ... Well, she flew well for MANY flights, gained a few grams here and there from tweaks and glue, but flew like a champ! Sunday morning was a cool one, no wind, just hawks high above looking for breakfast. I launched and headed out and up and found thermals kicking hard enough to throttle back a bit and ride them up higher, this was turning out to be a great flight. The hawks came over and took a look, I had...

Sorry for your lost. We got to understand that birds are birds. The Hawk are territorial by nature. If it sense there is a threat, it will attack ...be it a beast or a RC plane. I hope you can rebuilt or get a new Tiger moth. Its a great and nice plane. Cheers

Neat story, sorry to hear of the loss but hey, if your going to go down, might as well be in a blaze of glory!

Great story TM. Hate to read you lost the moth though.

Sorry to hear but like aramid said, it wasn't your fault, I found out it isn't just the birds of prey that may attack us, I have a flying wing glider called The little plank, the wing is 56" x 13", I guess to a little birds brain this thing looks like a hawk or similar, About 30 small song birds were following my plane, and every 30-45 seconds, 2-3 of them would climb a little higher and then make an attack run on...

When I first started flying I had a Zagi-Fixx. One day a couple of small birds tried a similar tactic, presumably to scare off the "big bird". The cool part of that incident was that I had an Aiptek PenCam running in video ( 8 fps ) mode on board at the time. There are about 3 or 4 frames in the video where an odd-shaped black object appears in the field of view for a single frame as one of the birds dove in front of the...

It's never fun to lose a plane, but that's a much, much better way to do it than pilot error or mechanical failure. It makes for a great story, too.